[UbuntuWomen] Some will never learn...

[Mirjam Wäckerlin]

H Caroline and Myriam,

I feel sad that these things are happening to you!
I have experienced some situations, too, which have left a bad taste
in my mouth (like people abusing the situation when I was at the booth
at linux events, trying to hit on me by asking technical questions and
after wanting my private address, knowing that I can't tell them to
p** off because I'm representing Ubuntu and have to be nice to them).

I understand that you, Caroline, are sick of it and you prefer just to
walk away to another place where you feel more welcome. On the other
hand, you have to consider that there are also a lot of people
supporting women (like pete did on the ubuntu-uk-thread), and if you
take the step to go before the CC, this could really change things -
for all women in Ubuntu. As Jan said, a lot of people would probably
come to this meeting to support you.
I know that it is annoying to step in and defend things which should
be self-evident, but if we don't do it, who else is going to do it?
I hope you won't remove your blog because of one comment - your blog
is really important, because other women who might consider joining
the project will be encouraged to do so by seeing that there's a
woman's blog on the planet.

And things can change! Four months ago, I was the only woman in our
team (www.kubuntu-de.org), now we are three. Out of 20 people, that's
not bad, I think, and the atmosphere in our team has clearly changed
(it wasn't bad before, but it's even much better now ;) ).

Mirjam